Hart, Gavin and Huber, Antoinette Raffaela (2023) Five Things We Need to Learn About Incel Extremism: Issues, Challenges and Avenues for Fresh Research. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. ISSN 1057-610X
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Abstract
In recent years research on the involuntarily celibate or “Incel” community has contributed a small but significant stock of knowledge about toxic varieties of extreme misogyny being shared on lightly regulated online communication boards. Simultaneously, we have witnessed the potential for Incel ideas to find expression in disturbing outbursts of extremist violence. This paper uses existing research to consider what we know and what we need to find out about this milieu if we are to further our knowledge and understanding. Ultimately, we highlight five key questions that need to be investigated more thoroughly and call for a wider range of methodological approaches in this endeavor. In particular, we argue that there is a need to build stronger connections with members of the Incel community in order to pursue a better-crafted body of research. While this is challenging, it is necessary if we are to gain a sense of how much support there is in Incel communities for violence, the role of pornography within the community, the key dimensions of Femcel ideology, the connections between Incel ideology and extreme right-wing thinking, and the measures that might aid deradicalization once an individual has adopted ideas related to extremist misogyny. Ultimately, we argue that while certain pieces of research are leading the way in contributing fresh thinking and innovative methodological approaches, there is much work to be done to develop our understanding in these areas of enquiry.
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| Additional Information and Comments: | © 2023 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Business, Law and Criminology > School of Law and Criminology |
| Depositing User: | Matthew Adams |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2023 13:43 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2023 13:43 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4030 |
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